On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Jack Ji wrote:

But this gets us to Perfume again. Since Perfume-neko looks like 
Shampoo-neko, Perfum should look like Shampoo in her girl form. Get it? 
It's a linear relationship. Well, this only took me three days to pop in 
my head. ^_^ I'll let you mull it over now...

I have to admit, that makes a twisted kind of sense.